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The Canadian Shield is among the oldest geologic areas on Earth, with regions dating from 2.5 to 4.2 billion years. [8] The multitude of rivers and lakes in the region is classical example of a deranged drainage system , caused by the watersheds of the area being disturbed by glaciation and the effect of post-glacial rebound . [ 9 ]
Canadian Shield, a vast region centred around Hudson Bay that includes parts of every province except British Columbia and the Maritimes, and parts of every territory except Yukon Northern Arctic Shield, includes the Boothia and Melville Peninsulas of Nunavut and the northwestern tip of Quebec.
This ecoregion consists of rolling hills, lakes, bogs and rocky outcrops covering a large curved swathe on the Canadian Shield from the Echoing River in Northern Ontario, running southeastwards through Thunder Bay District to the north shore of Lake Superior and then northeastwards into western Quebec.
The Kazan Region is a physiographic province of Canada and the part of the Canadian Shield that is located in extreme northeastern Alberta, northern Manitoba, and Saskatchewan, and also in parts of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
Boreal forest covers much of the shield, with a mix of conifers that provide valuable timber resources in areas such as the Central Canadian Shield forests ecoregion that covers much of Northern Ontario. The Canadian Shield is known for its vast mineral reserves such as emeralds, diamonds and copper, and is there also called the "mineral house ...
The term shield, used to describe this type of geographic region, appears in the 1901 English translation of Eduard Suess's Face of Earth by H. B. C. Sollas, and comes from the shape "not unlike a flat shield" [2] of the Canadian Shield which has an outline that "suggests the shape of the shields carried by soldiers in the days of hand-to-hand ...
Northern Canadian Shield taiga is a taiga ecoregion located in northern Canada, stretching from Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories to Hudson Bay in eastern Nunavut. The region supports conifer forests to its northern edge, where the territory grades into tundra .
The Canadian Shield has been divided up into seven areas based on differences in orogenic history. The Labrador portion of Newfoundland and Labrador forms the eastern region of the Canadian Shield, which hosts the entire Nain structural province, as well as some of the Superior, Churchill and Greenville provinces. [1]